Agreement Samsung - Zvezda for the construction of ships to metaniere icebreaker

The propulsion of the new units will be fed to which liquified natural gas

The South Korean navalmeccanico group Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex, the new navalmeccanico pole in the Russian Far East that has become the greatest center than shipbuilding of the nation, has signed an agreement for the realization of Arctic unit LNG, ships icebreaker for the which liquified natural gas transport whose propulsion will be also fed it to which liquified natural gas. The parts have confirmed also the creation of joint venture dedicated to the segment of the shuttle tanker, market of which SHI it stops the greater quota.

South Korean SHI and the Zvezda Russian have specified that the ships to metaniere will have a propulsion of the power of 45 megawatt, comparable to that of an icebreaker nuclear, and will be able to in the presence of break ice of the thickness until 2,1 meters temperatures until -52 Celsius degrees.